January Redemption (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780998130521)

In the late fifties through the sixties, Rebecca Leanda grew up moving. She went to school in both the eastern and western hemispheres. Young Becky often lived in areas that didn't have niceties like television, but she always had books. So much moving left Rebecca wondering about people who grew up in one place. It also left her wondering about how to explain how difficult it is to be accepted when you aren't from "around here." She spent the first part of her adulthood in the Virginia suburbs of the D.C area. Almost two decades ago, she moved to North Carolina. In between, she raised four beautiful children and starting writing her own stories. She and her partner ended on a farm in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Rebecca has developed a slight southern accent, but is still trying to figure out how to accept things like tomato sandwiches, brunswick stew, and mowing a yard with a tractor. Since moving to the farm, she has had her first bouts with poison ivy, wasp stings, and she has determined that bluebirds like to poop on cars. Rebecca discovered that the blacksnake is a good snake even if they keep having chance encounters.Spiders will make glorious webs on the outside of windows that have just been cleaned. And yes, sting-bugs are a real. But the stars are bright at night and she wouldn't live anywhere else, probably.